Mrs. Pollifax — by Dorothy Gilman

• 1966

MEET MRS. POLLIFAX Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown, married children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. So, naturally, she became a...

• 1970

WHAT A NICE SPY Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown, married children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. So, naturally, she became a CI...

• 1971

If you make it across the border, get us help. Some of us care. Do you understand? Right now we desperately need passports and identity papers. The arrests grow insane. At the very hour this message was en route to the CIA, Mrs. Pollifax was wa...

• Apr-1973

"What we are looking for--aside from the stolen plutonium, Mrs. Pollifax -- is evil in its purest form." Mrs. Pollifax was leading a very full life: Garden Club, karate, environment, yoga--and a little spying now and then. This time the myste...

• Dec-1976

PART-TIME GERANIUM EXPERT, PART-TIME SPY Now the incredible Mrs. Pollifax has been sent on a safari to smoke out a very clever international assassin whose next target is the president of Zambia. "Just take a lot of pictures of everyone on that...

• 1983

"The job we have in mind," Carstairs began smoothly, "could be extremely dangerous. We want to get a man out of China. But to do that we must first get a man into China--an agent. Your job, if you take this one, is to provide cover for this agent:" ...

• Sep-1985

It's a long way from the garden club to the CIA, but Mrs. Emily Pollifax made the leap splendidly. SOMETHING DANGEROUS IS IN THE HONG KONG AIR.... Faster than she can say her name, the newly married Mrs. Pollifax is packed and ready to go on an...

• Jan-1988

Mrs. Pollifax and her beloved husband, Cyrus, are off to the Far East for pleasure. No more life-threatening danger for Emily Pollifax, thank you very much--her mind's made up. But when on the very morning she and Cyrus are leaving for Bangkok, the C...

• May-1990

THE EXOTIC ASSIGNMENT IS A PIECE OF CAKE--UNTIL THE WHOLE THING CRUMBLES. All Mrs. Pollifax has to do is masquerade as the aunt of an inept CIA representative while he confirms the identities of seven undercover agents in Morocco--and keep him fro...

• Sep-1993

The assignment is a snap: Mrs. Pollifax just has to shoot some pictures at a quiet funeral outside Washington and take them to Sicily, where her old friend Farrell--a former CIA agent turned art dealer--anxiously awaits them. But like all Mrs. P.'...

• Feb-1995

The last thing Mrs. Pollifax expects to find in her closet is a young woman hiding. Kadi Hopkirk insists that she's being pursued by two men in a van. Under the cover of darkness, Mrs. P. tries to drive Kadi home to Manhattan, only to have a dark gre...

• Jan-1996

In response to a desperate SOS, Kadi Hopkirk flies to the African country of Ubangiba, where her childhood friend, Sammat, is soon to be crowned king. Mrs. Pollifax, reluctant to allow the girl to venture alone into what she fears may be grave danger...

• Oct-1997

Working with her retired CIA friend John Farrell, Mrs. Pollifax must smuggle a manuscript out of Jordan, a document that encodes the shocking truth of Saddam Hussein's reign.

Hardly are the two airborne when the coils of Middle Eastern intrigu...

• Jan-2000

After facing down hijackers on a flight to the Middle East and saving the lives of the passengers on board, a young American woman steps off the plane in Damascus in a blaze of celebrity and disappears. The CIA believes Amanda Pym was kidnapped, poss...